Interlude /(?)/

In·ter·lude

Interlude

n.
  1. A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
    Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps.
  2. A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
  3. A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line. (Mus.)
  4. Any intervening period of time, space, etc.; a pause between phases of an activity.